Man o man I have been in a drought
You would not believe the about of disgusting beats I have had in the past week. Just sickkkkkkkkk.
But enough of the bad beats. Red Hot Poker has these online tournaments everyweek, on Friday I got 3rd out of the 64 people that were there and today I just took down the $10 buy-in, 21 person tournament.
It felt really good because I came to the final table with an average chip stack and 5th in chips. The guy I ended up beating had the chip lead since we were down to 5 players and didn't really push it around. I was actually starting to get annoyed because I had him to my left, so I had to act and when I had an Ace mid rag I was worried that I would have to go against him, whereas I just wanted to take out the short takes behind him.
The hand that changed it all was a nice bluff on my part, I played the hand as though I was chasing the flush (check calling the whole way), two hearts on the flop and when the 3rd heart came on the river I bet it out and he folded the hand. I showed him the king 4...because well I hoped I would get him to play aggressively against me and think I was bluffing.
Wouldn't you know it, the next hand I had Queen 9 of clubs, he raises (3x) and I make the call. Queen, 8, 4 on the flop one club. I check he bets, I re-raise him and he moves all in. I call and he flips over Ace 8. No Ace to help him and I took the chip lead for the first time.
That was the turning point, I grinded away and got all his chips and the nice little $94 bucks to go along with it.
But enough of the bad beats. Red Hot Poker has these online tournaments everyweek, on Friday I got 3rd out of the 64 people that were there and today I just took down the $10 buy-in, 21 person tournament.
It felt really good because I came to the final table with an average chip stack and 5th in chips. The guy I ended up beating had the chip lead since we were down to 5 players and didn't really push it around. I was actually starting to get annoyed because I had him to my left, so I had to act and when I had an Ace mid rag I was worried that I would have to go against him, whereas I just wanted to take out the short takes behind him.
The hand that changed it all was a nice bluff on my part, I played the hand as though I was chasing the flush (check calling the whole way), two hearts on the flop and when the 3rd heart came on the river I bet it out and he folded the hand. I showed him the king 4...because well I hoped I would get him to play aggressively against me and think I was bluffing.
Wouldn't you know it, the next hand I had Queen 9 of clubs, he raises (3x) and I make the call. Queen, 8, 4 on the flop one club. I check he bets, I re-raise him and he moves all in. I call and he flips over Ace 8. No Ace to help him and I took the chip lead for the first time.
That was the turning point, I grinded away and got all his chips and the nice little $94 bucks to go along with it.
posted by 7Deuce at 11:10 PM
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